Staff of Borderlands Theater

CONTRACT STAFF

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• MIKE WILSON Board President
• PATRICIA BENTONVice President
• NOELL RODRIGUEZ Treasurer
• LYNETTE ELIAS Secretary
• Mohyeddin Abdulaziz
• Ronald David, M.D.
• Eldonna Fisher
• Barclay Goldsmith
• Alison Hughes
• Catherene Morton, Ph. D, J.D.
• Diego Navarrette
• Sarah Roberts
• Eldon Schafer
  
• Michael Weber

• Ex-Officio:
  • Thomas Benavidez
  • Guadalupe Castillo
  • Frank de la Cruz
  • Mary Malaby
  • Raquel Rubio Goldsmith

PRODUCING DIRECTOR

Barclay Goldsmith

co-founded Borderlands Theater in 1986 and has remained as producing director since that time. In addition he has directed many of the company’s productions under the Border Playwrights Project and has been instrumental in commissioning and developing new plays, many of which have gone on to be produced at other theaters across the country. Founding member of the National New Play Network (NNPN), an organization of 26 theaters which since 1999, has championed the development and production of new plays, recently developed the U.S. /Mexico Program with strong ties to theaters in Mexico and artist exchanges. His work in Mexico includes directing at El Circulo Teatral and the Istituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. His award winning production of La Mujer Que Cayo del Cielo/The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, by Victor Hugo Rascon Banda has represented Mexico at the UNESCO International Theater Festival (2005) and toured most of Mexico and South America. His awards include the Arizona Arts Award, a nomination as best director, and (2009) Mexico City Critics Association for Cita a Ciegas/Blind Date by Mario Diamont. He has addressed “borders” and theater issues at conferences in both Mexico and the U.S. Most recently he was guest director at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. National MFA Playwrights program sponsored by NNPN and Stanford University. He was a co-founder of Teatro Libertad, a theater collective in Tucson active during the 1970’s and holds a BA in English/Drama (Stanford University) and an MFA in Theater Directing (Carnegie Mellon University).

ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Eva Zorrilla Tessler

is a native of Mexico City. She holds an MFA in Theater Arts and an MA in anthropology from the University of Arizona. During the 80’s, she danced, acted, choreographed and taught in Brazil at the Universidad Estadual de Campinas. Since moving to Tucson in 1989, she has choreographed dance theater works with the Zenith Dance Collective. Associate Artistic Director of Borderlands’ she performs, choreographs, and directs with the company. Highlights of her work include: Directing -Luis Alfaro’s, Oedipus el Rey; Victor Hugo Rascon Banda’s, Deseo/Desire; and Jose Rivera’s, School of the Americas; choreography for the world premiere of Old Matador at Arizona Theater Company and movement for the film Roosters. She co-wrote the play 13 Days/13 Dias: How the New Zapatistas Shook the World, which toured nationally by the San Francisco Mime Troupe in 1996. Tessler, is a founding member of the Latina Dance Project, a performance group that supports the contemporary voice of Latina dance. She is the recipient of the Arizona Commission on the Arts, “Individual Artists Project” grant (2006) and the, Individual Artist LULAC Albert Soto Arts Award (2008).

EDUCATION OUTREACH MANAGER

Alida Wilson-Gunn

Arizona native is currently directing the Coyote y Culebra Youth Project: Wind in the Shadows, an original piece of theater inspired and created by students as part of an in-school workshop/writing/performance project. She has performed in several Borderlands’ productions including: Esmeralda, Earthquake Chica; Picuka, Oliver Mayer’s Conjunto; Cristina, Electricidad; and Jocasta, Oediups el Rey, by Luis Alfaro. Other credits: Kate, Rouge Theaters’ Immortal Longings; Frida Kahlo, Still Life with Chamber Music Plus; Abby, Fiction for Beowulf Alley (nominated best actress 06 MAC award); Killer, Killer in Love with Camilla’s Theater, NY; and her own one-woman show Vein, NY. Technical credits include Assistant Director/Stage Manager/Lighting/Sound Technician; Maggie/Magalita; Frozen, Beowulf Alley Theater; Caged, NY; One Woman Series, Camilla’s Theater, NY; and The Stella Adler Theater, LA. Alida attended the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture institute, worked for Herberger Theater in Phoenix with their Youth-at-Risk program, and interned at Mark Taper Forum in L.A with the Latino Theater Initiative.

LITERARY MANAGER/GRANT WRITER/PLAYWRIGHT

Toni Press-Coffman

has written 20 plays, which have been produced throughout the country, and has had work developed at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Sundance Institute, Midwest Professional Playwrights Laboratory, and Minneapolis’ Playwrights Center.  She has taught playwrights at the undergraduate and graduate levels and mentored them through her work with Borderlands Coyote y Culebra Youth Program.  Created with a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Press-Coffman’s Touch has been produced throughout the United States, including a 2003 Off-Broadway production and at Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival.  She was awarded an NEA/TCG Playwright Residencies (1999), received the Brodkin Award, won the Arizona State Playwriting Award and her most recent play, Armor, won Arizona Theatre Company’s Playwriting Award (2010).

Book Keeper

MARIA E. MORENO

coming soon

OFFICE & BOXOFFICE

Borderlands Theater is located in downtown Tucson:
(Enter front of building on Broadway or back off Jackson Street)
Office hours 11am – 6pm, Monday-Friday
(please call before visiting)

Borderlands Theater
Office & Box Office
40 W. Broadway Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85701

Borderlands Theater
P.O. Box 2791
Tucson, AZ 85702

Office: (520) 882-8607
Box Office: (520) 882-7406
Fax: (520) 884-4264

(Barclay and Maria) bltheater (at) aol.com
(Eva Tessler) wetborderdog (at) hotmail.com
(Education Outreach) awilsongunn (at) borderlandstheater.org
(Script Submissions) tpplay (at) q.com
(box office) boxoffice (at) borderlandstheater.org
(general info) info (at) borderlandstheater.org